Recycling misery: How Coca-Cola profits from garbage collected by Mexican children
The company acknowledged child labor contributes to its Mexico City collection chain.
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Por: Peniley Ramírez
Publicado: mar 13, 2017 | 07:03 PM EDT
Mexico City - The three Herrera siblings are minors who help their parents make a living by collecting garbage.
They live with their parents in a cardboard and wooden house, with a dirt floor, surrounded by mountains of plastic waste and decomposing food in the Bordo of Xochiaca, a garbage dump outside Mexico City.
Every morning before dawn, Anely, 10, Gerardo, 9 and Erika, 8, walk from home to the dump to help their parents sort the garbage in search of plastic bottles.
They are part of a lucrative supply chain run by Coca-Cola and seven Mexican bottling companies.
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